Stephen Wolfram, the man behind computing-application Mathematica and the search engine Wolfram Alpha, has a short attention span that's married to a long-term outlook. When asked what his favorite ...

Wolfram|Alfa is a novel approach to search, and is self-described as a computational engine. First, we will get out of the way some misconceptions about Wolfram|Alfa, and what it is not. Wolfram|Alfa ...

Editor’s note: Below is a guest post from Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks, about a new computational knowledge engine called Wolfram Alpha being developed by computer scientist Stephen Wolfram.

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Whenever someone tells me they're building a search engine that will do things better than Google, I am skeptical. Not because I think Google does everything well, but because it is very hard to build ...

A new web application called Wolfram|Alpha looks like Google but is far scarier in its implications for humanity’s future. Developers say it will “provide a single source that can be relied on by ...

It never hurts to put your ear to the ground and hear what geeks are rumbling about and is heading down the prairie toward the rest of us. This week, it's something called "Wolfram|Alpha," (in English ...

On Wednesday, February 8th, Wolfram Alpha will be adding a new, “Pro” option to its already existing services. Priced at a very reasonable $4.99 a month ($2.99 for students), the new services includes ...

Wolfram Research is somewhat of a legend. Founded by Stephen Wolfram in 1987, Wolfram Research has been into things such as reasoning, question answering, and an array of advanced services that go ...

Wolfram Alpha, the analytics-based "answering engine" built by Stephen Wolfram on his Mathematica software, is drawing immense hype even before its launch later this month. An invention that could ...